“A Stretching in Alabama” Jim Seams Execution Reported in Fort Worth

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: Fort Worth Daily Gazette
Place of publication: Fort Worth, TX
Date of publication: Jan 26, 1889 12:00 am
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Transcript:

A Stretching in Alabama. MONTGOMERY, ALA., Jan. 25.-At Eutaw, Ala., , a negro named James Seams was hanged today for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Autrey of Tuscaloosa, about six months ago. He was calm and died in nineteen minutes.